Motivational Quotes

Life

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

- Morgan, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

17.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

18.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

23.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.